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"Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people."
"Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life."
"If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work."
"You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life."
"The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life."
"You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness."
"What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing."
"The best revenge is, of course, a good life. Enjoy yourself, be happy, be successful. It'll drive them crazy-or you can imagine it does. You'll feel so good you won't care."
"We all want the Greek people to prosper, to be able to provide a good life for their families and their children. That would be good for Greece, that would be good for the European Union, good for the United States, and ultimately, good for the world."
"A good life is not measured by any biblical span."
"The dog's life is a good life, for a dog."
"I got married recently. So far, so good. Less sex than I expected, but other than that, it's a pretty good lifestyle."
"Life is not easy. But that's not the only truth that matters in this context. It also happens to be true that it takes just as much effort to have a "bad life," in which you don't get what you want, as it does to have a "good life," where you do. So given the choice, why not go for the good life?"
"Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure."
"Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head."
"Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?"
"I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'"
"I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff."
"The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan."
"If you say that a good reputation serves to benefit the neighbor more, I admit that. However, since it should be based on a good life, it is, therefore, preserved by the practice of virtue and not by human intrigue."
